Word: slim
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...handful of U.S. newsmen. Next day, Soviet Ambassador Aleksandr Abramov stepped from his plane to be greeted by a U.S.-trained honor guard and a line of kneeling girls in sarongs who offered him silver bowls heaped with flowers. Also amiably on hand to greet the Russian: slim Captain Kong Le, Laos' current hero, whose military coup in August overturned the pro-Western government and brought to power neutralist Premier Souvanna Phouma. Captain Kong Le is so politically innocent that he had to ask a Western journalist what was meant by "neutralismo...
...India, Nkrumah of Ghana, Nasser of Egypt, Sukarno of Indonesia -are magnetic, colorful and messianic personalities, but too much so. The most effective work has often been done by second-echelon diplomats: men like Burma's U Thant, Nepal's Rishikesh Shaha and Tunisia's Mongi Slim...
...peace. But not one Negro child as yet attends class with whites in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina or Louisiana.* And out of 3,095,345 Negro pupils in all Southern public schools, only 183,104 attend integrated classes in 1960. Compared to last year, the gain is a slim...
...Crimson's strategy to score first and hold a slim lead almost backfired in the final play of the first half on a play that might have finished other teams. The varsity eleven had just started a now series on its own when second quarterback Terry Bartolet, on his second and last play of the game, was rushed by the Dartmouth line and threw a pass intended for Hatch and intercepted by defending back Dick Marrone...
...varsity sailing team this weekend proved conclusively the problem which plagued it earlier in the season. Instead of losing by their usual slim point margin, the Crimson skippers placed sixth in a nine-school fleet at the Denmark trophy races in New London...